First draft came out better than expected--though it took longer than I'd hoped (eight months to the day from the point the idea first struck me to my finishing the final chapter). Good feedback from friends. And now onto the painful process of rewriting...

I've decided to temporarily shelve Wildworld and give the new book a try. I need the breath-of-fresh-air that I hope Dottie Notkin can provide. (What a little scamp she is!) And I'm gonna go with the "experiment" deal again, inviting friends to read along as the chapters are knocked out--at a much brisker pace than those last ones were arriving, for god's... Read More

Weird night. Something woke me at 4:00 in the morning, an idea for a new novel, another "middle-grade" book, but sooooooooo different that the first one--something lighter, more rapid-fire and, well, fun. The idea was already so strangely fleshed out. I don't know if I'd had some dream that inspired it or what, but I put on the lamp and started hurriedly... Read More